The wonderful people at CoramBAAF have a new publication available, exploring child to parent violence and aggression and the impact it has on adopted and kinship families. It is available as an e-book here corambaaf.org.uk/books/parentin…

Calling all DDP Level 1 practitioners! We have a fantastic Level 2 course this December in Cardiff, places are limited afkacymru.org.uk/product/ddp-le…

I thoroughly recommend this course. Co-facilitating this last year was such a pleasure! Sign up and learn about yourself and others through the objects in your and their life.

📢 #CallForParticipants #ResearchParticpants I am seeking adoptive parents to take part in a collaborative research project as part of #PhD. If you are eligible, please consider contacting me for further details [email protected]

Today I had to do a big thing in not a lot of time. I reckoned the best place to start was with an unrelated job which was probably impossible for one person and might result in injury and broken furniture. Anyway, all my bookcases are now in another room.

Can we stop the culture of expecting people to speak about lived experience for free? Was approached on LinkedIn at 11pm with a keynote request. A polite “Is this a paid opp” was met with “If this is a deciding factor then…”. Would you ask a builder, teacher, hairdresser 🧵

Fantastic afternoon in Hebden Bridge cinema. Feature length recording of Dudley Moore trio from 1978, followed by Bedazzled and live music. Very excited about seeing Peter Cooks beautiful face on the big screen! #incarnate

Wish people would also quote the next few paragraphs of the book after this, where I cite research showing that unmasking/disclosing you're Autistic makes this effect drop away!

I am having a very focussed evening of doctoral essay writing , by which I mean that I am currently having a spirited discussion with an AI bot about whether Harry Nilsson was a good person.

If academics are so smart then why did they agree to do homework until they die?

Spent a fantastic day on this workshop with Jane Postlethwaite - find me on instagram , a bunch of very funny women and two adorable dogs.

Each time I write a critical reflection, I am I tempted to include this quote by Peter Cook character Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling.

You've got to hand it to the The Archers, they do a great job at depicting fully mature people with great sex lives. Joy & her fella are having a cracking time in that motorhome and we can only imagine what Brian & Miranda are up to in Menorca (not Majorca, perish the thought)

Join our inaugural kinship conference this October!

About to present a workshop on Therapeutic Interventions in the Foundling Museum for CoramBAAF annual Health Conference. I've spoken about the needs of (previously) looked after children in many special places, but this one feels particularly poignant.

We are also thrilled to have Hedwig Verhagen return to host a workshop focused on therapeutic interventions in child health. The aim is to help health professionals make sense of the variety of therapeutic interventions offered to the children they work with. #CBHealth24 🧵 10/12

Fabulous day celebrating the achievements of students and staff in the School of Healthcare University of Leeds Very proud of all the nominees and winners, but especially so of our social work students and staff!

Chloe Booth is looking for parents / carers in Merseyside with experience of #CAPVA to help with her PhD research